"Azerbaijan has a very clear intention to end the current situation where there was a de facto government in the Nagorno-Karabakh region," says Marie Dumoulin, director of the Wider Europe programme at the European Council on Foreign Relations. Baku on Wednesday said it had halted its military operation in the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh, after separatist Armenian forces agreed to lay down their arms. (INTERVIEW CONDUCTED BY VIDEO CALL) SOUNDBITES